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...probably be considered a brown dwarf, which is a kind of failed star. "We're calling it a planet-like object rather than a planet," says Michael McElwain, a postdoctoral student at Princeton who co-authored the discovery paper for Astrophysical Journal Letters published in November. (See the 50 best inventions...
...especially thrilling is that GJ 758 B could be as close to its star as Neptune is to the sun - unusual, considering that astronomers had previously believed that large planets formed closer to or farther from their stars, but not in GJ 758 B's location. In the best-case, most optimistic scenario, McElwain says, we might be able to image a Jupiter-mass object about four times farther out than Jupiter is in our solar system...
...what not to do is daunting. (Don't eat deli meat! Don't color your hair! Don't even look at wine!) Love your kids like mad, provide boundaries, be consistent, listen and laugh and occasionally let them be. I worry that in parents' desire to be the best parents, they forget it is also supposed to be fun. I worry more that we are creating narcissistic kids who believe the world orbits around their every whim...
...best qualities that Dean Light has is that he really understands the student perspective,” Daubin said. “He was always very conscious of student opinion...
...which all of Harvard’s healthy players saw time on the court, brought the team to 6-1 on the season. The start is the Crimson’s best since 1984-85 when it began...